Cover version by Maurice Gunsky of two 1928 songs from Dolores del Rio  1928 Movie  RAMONA
 
Maurice Gunsky
Label:   Victor
Country: USA
Catalogue: 21342
Date: 1 Apr 1928

A Maurice Gunsky Ramona Gilbert, Wayne 
B Maurice Gunsky The Desert Song Harbach, Hammerstein, Romberg 


Notes

Side A: Ramona was the theme song of motion picture production "Ramona"

Original Scroll Issue 10" 78 rpm record

Condition:

EXCELLENT light scuffs, rim bump on Ramona does not touch grooves,  plays very quiet light crackle

A SUPERB COPY

Ramona is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by Edwin Carewe,[1] based on Helen Hunt Jackson's 1884 novel Ramona, and starring Dolores del Río and Warner Baxter. This was the first United Artists film with a synchronized score and sound effect, but no dialogue, and so was not a talking picture. The novel had been previously filmed by D. W. Griffith in 1910 with Mary Pickford, remade in 1916 with Adda Gleason, and again in 1936 with Loretta Young.



Cast
Dolores del Río as Ramona
Warner Baxter as Alessandro
Roland Drew as Felipe
Vera Lewis as Señora Moreno
Michael Visaroff as Juan Canito
John T. Prince as Father Salvierderra
Mathilde Comont as Marda
Carlos Amor as Sheepherder
Jess Cavin as Bandit Leader
Rita Carewe as Baby
Jean the Dog as Dog
Shep Houghton as the Mexican Boy
Nadine Riga as the Girl
Saint-Granier as the French singer
Dorothy Teters as the Indian
Plot
The film depicts Ramona, who is half Native American, as she is raised by a Mexican family. Ramona suffers racism and prejudice in her community, and when she finds out that she is half Native, she chooses to identify as a Native American instead of a Mexican American so that she can marry Alessandro, who is a Native as well. This romantic tragedy relays the tragic death of Ramona and Alessandro’s child at the hands of a Caucasian doctor, who refuses to help their child because of his skin color. Shortly after, the couple moves away, and Alessandro is killed by a white man for robbing him of his horse; Ramona eventually reunites with her childhood friend Felipe and starts a new life as a depressed woman. She is only able to recover from her depression and remember her feelings for Felipe when he sings a song from their childhood to restore her memory.

Production
Parts of the film were shot in Zion National Park, Springdale, and Cedar Breaks National Monument, all in Utah.[2]:286

Reception
Mordaunt Hall of the New York Times found much to praise in what he called "an Indian love lyric": "This current offering is an extraordinarily beautiful production, intelligently directed and, with the exception of a few instances, splendidly acted. The scenic effects are charming.... The different episodes are told discreetly and with a good measure of suspense and sympathy. Some of the characters have been changed to enhance the dramatic worth of the picture, but this is pardonable, especially when one considers this subject as a whole."[3]

Effects
An article published by UCLA revealed that the 1928 film is believed to be the most authentic of the five film adaptations of Ramona since the director Edwin Carewe was part Chickasaw and Dolores del Río was raised in Mexico.[4] Ramona is differentiated from most films with a typical Hollywood ending because of its authentic cultural values embedded throughout.[5] An article by Indian Country Today revealed the fact that Carewe discovered del Río in Mexico and invited her to Hollywood to perform in his film. Many film enthusiasts see Carewe as del Río’s steppingstone to fame in Hollywood as an actor and singer. Del Río recorded the film's theme song, "Ramona." It was not used in the 1936 version.[6]

Helen Hunt Jackson and Edwin Carewe shared a goal of exposing the mistreatment of the Native Americans at the hands of the U.S. Federal Government through the means of Ramona. Both the book and the film, however, were popularized because of their dramatic, romantic, and cultural aspects.[7]